git post-receive hook to post the last commit message and committer onto an irc channel through irssi-proxy

post-receive

#!/bin/sh

USER='username'
PASS='password'  # password for the irc server or irssi-proxy
PORT=6668        # port where irssi-proxy runs
HOST='localhost' # host where irssi-proxy runs
CHAN='#test'     # channel in which to post

read oldrev newrev _branch
branch=$(echo $_branch | sed 's/.*\/\([a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\)$/\1/')
tail=$(git log -1 --pretty=format:'%h %cn: %s%b' $newrev)

nc $HOST $PORT > /dev/null << EOF
pass $PASS
user $USER
nick $USER
privmsg $CHAN :$branch - $tail
quit
EOF